The CIA apparently thought it had Khaled al-Masri, a completely different person, and when they discovered that they had kidnapped an innocent car dealer, they dumped him off in a deserted road in Albania in the middle of the night.

Though the kidnapping is a recognized fact, the Macedonian government has repeatedly denied any involvement. This is expected to change, as an unnamed senior minister in the Macedonian government is planning to testify at the court that the account Masri gave of the “rendition” was accurate.

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And what would the US have done had the Germans had issued warrants? Leave the helpless Germans to their own devices and recall the US bases? By the way, what does kidnapping and torturing German citizens do to the bilateral relationship?

I'm sure it would be different of Khalid El-Masri was a German name. As long as the US doesn't kidnap and torture some guy named Kurt Schnieder or something I'm pretty sure this won't really affect the German-US relationship.